Author: mattbeighton

Not only does October 1st mark the start of World Dyslexia Awareness Week, it’s also the release date for the latest instalment in the Monstacademy series. Trixie Grimble and all of your favourites are back once again only, this time, their trouble is ancient! Better still, to celebrate Dyslexia Awareness Week, you can grab 15% […]

I’m excited to announce that The Spyglass and the Cherry Tree is now available in hardback edition and comes complete with maps of Ithilmir. Head over to Amazon or your favourite online retailer to purchase it now.

To celebrate World Book Day on Thursday 1st March, I’m offering 15% off all purchases on the Green Monkey Press Etsy shop between 28th February and 2nd March. Use the code WBD18 or follow the link above.

Exciting news this week as The Spyglass and the Cherry Tree has a new ebook cover (see below!). I’m excited to see how this goes down with readers and the paperback version may well follow later in the year. Don’t forget, if you’ve read it already or plan to read it in the future, leave […]

It is with great excitement that I can finally reveal the cover for the upcoming first instalment of the Monstacademy series of books for children. It is titled The Halloween Parade and will enter editing at the end of this month. Thank you to all of the amazing beta readers who have and continue to […]

What They’re Saying

I wish more books like this had been around when I was a child, it would have made reading even better and more imaginative. A character like Trixie would have been a great read as a child and was also a very cute and loving character to read as an adult.

The Spyglass and the Cherry Tree is a brilliant fantasy adventure with a journey about confronting fears and trials to become a hero, with a variety of eccentric characters, an evil queen, and the quest for a magical stone.

The book was very exciting and fun to read. I really liked that there were activity pages at the end. The characters are very likeable and realistic. The author puts a creative twist on classic monsters, including a vegetarian vampire!

What a brilliant, funny children’s story this turned out to be! ... I have no hesitation in highly recommending it as a fun read for children and the young at heart, too, and teachers should definitely check it out!

I read this book to my six year old son and he was enamoured with it right from the very first page. I sometimes struggle to get him to engage with a story, especially a longer book like this, but he was absolutely gripped and begged me to read more every night!